Make sure the network isn't connected while booting up. The PC tries to sync itself with the LAN if it has a connection. If there is no connection it shouldn't try that, and boot times should be faster. Connect it to the net after it logging in.

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cbumatayIT/Network Services CoordinatorAuthor Commented: 2015-02-02

I found the answer searching here. It seemed to work and I had the user take the laptop home tonight and I'll find our the results tomorrow.

a startup time around 2-3 minutes is very normal - unless you have an SSD installed
is that so ?

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cbumatayIT/Network Services CoordinatorAuthor Commented: 2015-02-03

No SSD installed on the laptop. Here's the email from the user last night after taking her laptop home.

I’m still having issues with it logging on/off in a timely manner. The first time I logged on it was fairly quick – around 30 seconds, the second time it was 5 ½ minutes and the third time it was a little over 4 minutes.

I will look into replacing the HDD with a SSD and see if that fixes and/or speeds up the startup.